The Barcelona wins in Old Trafford for the first time in his history

With the triumph harvested this Wednesday in Old Trafford (0-1), the FC Barcelona attained encarrilar the pass to semifinals of the Champions League 2018-19 and, besides, achieved the first victory of all his history in the stadium of the 'network devils'. The group culé never had won in the mythical English stadium, of where accumulated two ties and two defeats in spite of having a better global balance.

The two triumphs obtained in the finals of 2009 and 2011, in Rome and in Wembley, meant a turning point in the direct clashes between both teams, with the FC Barcelona erigiéndose like an upper team, with a more attractive game to the pair that effective. However, it did not play in Old Trafford an official party from the season 2007-08, and from here that the first victory in the English stadium had not arrived before.

In that eliminatory of semifinals of the Champions League 2007-08 against the Manchester United, the Barcelona harvested a tie to zero in the Camp Nou and fell by 1-0 in the Theatre of the Dreams, by fault of a golazo from out of the area of Paul Scholes.

Both teams measured also in the phase of groups of the season 1998-99, with two surprising ties 3-3 so much in the Camp Nou as in Old Trafford, and in the one of 1994-95, with goleada in Barcelona (4-0) and tie in English earths (2-2). In the Recopa, the 'network devils' also deleted to the blaugrana in the quarter-finals of the campaign 1983-84, when tracing back the 2-0 of the party of gone with a 3-0 in the party of turn.

The FC Barcelona carried expecting long to win in one of the most mythical stadiums of the international football, and at last has done it. In spite of the grey and little showy party of the culés this Wednesday, the team trained by Ernesto Valverde knew to defend with nails and teeth in the second part, without fitting any goal and keeping a 0-1 very valuable for the turn.

Now, the FC Barcelona already can say that it has been able to conquer the Theatre of the Dreams, one of the few stadiums in which it still had not won. This yes, has done it without that it mark any of his players, since finally the UEFA decided to give the authorship of the goal to Luke Shaw in own put, and no to Luis Suárez as it seemed in a principle. It was as it was, Old Trafford already has seen to win to the Barça. Always there is a first time.

All the official duels between Barça and Manchester United:

• 1983-84 Recopa of Europe (gone 1/4 of final) - FC Barcelona-Manchester United (2-0)
• 1983-84 Recopa of Europe (turn 1/4 of final) - Manchester United-FC Barcelona (3-0)
• 1994-95 Champions (gone phase of groups) - FC Barcelona-Manchester United (4-0)
• 1994-95 Champions (gone back phase of groups) - Manchester United-FC Barcelona (2-2)
• 1998-99 Champions (gone phase of groups) - FC Barcelona-Manchester United (3-3)
• 1998-99 Champions (gone back phase of groups) - Manchester United-FC Barcelona (3-3)
• 2007-08 Champions (gone semifinals) - FC Barcelona-Manchester United (0-0)
• 2007-08 Champions (gone back semifinals) - Manchester United-FC Barcelona (1-0)
• 2018-19 Champions (gone 1/4 of final) - Manchester United-FC Barcelona (0-1)